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01 Playtown 2 Cover

Year unknown · PC

Playtown 2

95%

Playtown 2 is a first person adventure horror game that takes place inside an indoor children's playground. Continue the journey to uncover the mysteries filled with challenging puzzles and deadlier enemies. This time .. you won't survive, as Hump-tump is not...

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The Anomaly Detective

95% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Horror Theme First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Missing Children Cover

2020 · PC

Missing Children

91%

Missing Children is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.

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The Anomaly Detective

91% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel
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03 Hanako Cover

2020 · PC

Hanako

91%

Hanako is a Japanese survival horror adventure game. Three 5th graders enter their school way past their curfew to curse a fellow student with the ritual of Hanako. Suddenly, Hanako is now after them, and they are separated. You play the role of one of the st...

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The Anomaly Detective

91% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel
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04 Home Sweet Home Cover

2017 · PC, PS4, PSVR

Home Sweet Home

90%

Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various. W...

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The Anomaly Detective

90% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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05 Save Room: Organization Game Cover

2022 · Switch, PC, PS4

Save Room: Organization Game

88%

When you enter a save room you know you are safe, no danger can come to you, you can relax. Take advantage of this short period of time to organize your inventory, heal your wounds and reload your weapons. Can you make all the items fit in your inventory?

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The Anomaly Detective

88% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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06 Fatum Betula Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, XONE

Fatum Betula

86%

Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

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The Anomaly Detective

86% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Iron Lung Cover

2022 · Switch, PC, PS5

Iron Lung

81%

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

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The Anomaly Detective

81% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel
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08 Escape the Backrooms Cover

2025 · Switch 2, PC, PS5

Escape the Backrooms

81%

Explore the seemingly infinite expanse of eerily familiar levels in the backrooms based on the popular creepypasta lore. Each level features different ways to escape with danger along the way.

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The Anomaly Detective

81% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel
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09 Observation Cover

2019 · PC, PS4, XONE

Observation

75%

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

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The Anomaly Detective

75% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Pumpkin Panic Cover

2023 · PC

Pumpkin Panic

69%

Explore this little farm in the middle of the forest, plant crops, take care of the plants, go fishing, or whatever you prefer, but have a good time! But be careful, they say that strange things are happening in the area...

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The Anomaly Detective

69% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Simulator Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel
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11 Creature Kitchen Cover

2026 · PC

Creature Kitchen

67%

Befriend your local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks in this cozy atmospheric cooking simulator! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.

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The Anomaly Detective

67% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Simulator Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 What Remains of Edith Finch Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

What Remains of Edith Finch

66%

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of short stories about a cursed family in Washington State. Each story offers a chance to experience the life of a different family member with stories ranging from the early 1900s to the present day. The gameplay a...

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The Anomaly Detective

66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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13 Soma Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Soma

66%

SOMA is a sci-fi horror game from Frictional Games, the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It is an unsettling story about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human. Enter the world of SOMA and face horrors buried deep beneath the ocean waves...

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The Anomaly Detective

66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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14 Amnesia: The Dark Descent Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

66%

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games. The game features a protagonist named Daniel exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while trying to maintain his sanity by avoiding monsters and other terrifying obstructions. The...

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The Anomaly Detective

66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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15 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

66%

In The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, you play as Paul Prospero, an occult detective who receives a disturbing letter from Ethan Carter and realizes that the boy is in grave danger. When Paul arrives in Ethan's home of Red Creek Valley, he realizes things are even...

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The Anomaly Detective

66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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16 Poopy's Playland Cover

2026 · PC

Poopy's Playland

64%

Play as a grieving mother whose child went missing in a playland one year ago. Use your trusty flashlight to navigate through the dark, solve replayable puzzles to progress forward, and hide from the unstable killer mascots! Investigate the mysteries and find...

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The Anomaly Detective

64% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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17 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

59%

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enou...

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The Anomaly Detective

59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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18 Half-Life Cover

1998 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life

56%

Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretica...

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The Anomaly Detective

56% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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19 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Cover

2017 · Stadia, Mac, Switch 2

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

56%

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the first game of the Resident Evil series to switch from 3rd-person to fully 1st-person perspective. A complete refresh of gameplay systems simultaneously propels the survival horror experience to another level. It is as much hor...

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The Anomaly Detective

56% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

55%

A small child falls into the Underground, where monsters have long been banished by humans and are hunting every human that they find. The player controls the child as they try to make it back to the Surface through hostile environments, all the while engaging...

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The Anomaly Detective

55% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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